Release notes November 2014

1. Espacenet: Feature changes and improvements

1.1. Global dossier in
Espacenet

The EPO and SIPO have now launched the Global dossier in
Espacenet.

Global dossier provides a single point of access to file
wrapper (file inspection) content published by selected partner offices. In the
case of SIPO (the State Intellectual Property Office of the People's Republic
of China), the EPO has been supplied with file inspection content for
applications with a national filing date as from 10 February 2010 (if
available), in addition to a machine translation from Chinese into English.

The icon is displayed in the command line panel
when a file wrapper is available.

Click on the Global dossier link
to open a separate window displaying the table of contents (ToC) of the family
member's file wrapper. The partner office's logo and the family member's
application number appear at the top.

You will see three columns, each containing data about the individual
documents in the dossier: a date, a description and the number of pages (if figure
available).

Clicking on a description marked (ORIGINAL)
will display the original document in Chinese (left below).

Clicking on a description marked (TRANSLATED)
will display the English translation provided by SIPO of the Chinese-language original
(right above).

1.2. Enhanced patent translate target option

Relevant
family members or "Also published as" documents (equivalents) are now
shown in the Description and Claims windows to provide quick access via
hyperlinks to the corresponding description or claims part of the relevant equivalents.

This
function enables you to read the document in .pdf format in your preferred
language (if available).

Only
family members with a corresponding description and claims in .pdf format will
be shown in the new panel (see screenshot above) in the Description or Claims
windows.

The
family members displayed are hyperlinked to .pdf files, and when clicked they
open the corresponding description/claims.

Rule

The
claims part of the .pdf will open to correspond with the claims you are looking
at.

The
description part of the .pdf will open to correspond with the description you
are looking at.

This
feature is not available for the abstract.

The
Bibliographic data view remains
unchanged.

1.3.
Claims tree link
adapted

The Claims tree
link has been enhanced to provide the Claims
tree tab indicated below.

1.4. Manual correction of machine translation

It is now possible for you to submit corrections to the translations
provided by Patent Translate in Espacenet. By doing so, you are adding new
corpora to the machine translation system and helping to improve its
translation ability.

The following example is based on the translation of an abstract fom English
to Albanian:

Clicking on the patent translate
button will open a new window with the text translated into Albanian.

As soon as you click anywhere in the translated text buttons appear, such
as Submit Corrections and Close.

Clicking on the Submit Corrections
button will open the Correction Editor.

1.5. CPC
2000 Series feature change

CPC buttons have
been changed. We now have two toggle buttons for the 2000 series classifications.
You can choose to show them interleaved or exclude them from the classification
results list.